Basic trainees rally themselves with motivational chants while waiting in line to perform the first obstacle in the Basic Training Obstacle course on Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo) The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.
By: FEDweek StaffIn an effort to bolster officer recruiting, the Department of the Air Force has established a permanent accessions center. Leadership hopes the facility, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, will help coordinate efforts to attract more recruits – particularly officers, but enlisteds as well – into the Air Force and Space Force.
The new Air Force Accessions Center (AFAC) will include both the Air Force Recruiting Service (AFRS) and the Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development under one command.
The Air and Space Forces Association (A&SFA) reported that the recruiting service will handle both officer accession for those who attend officer training school, and all enlisted accessions for the two armed services. The Holm Center will oversee the training schools for both commissioned and warrant officers, as well as the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC).
The change was made, A&SFA reported, because ROTC recruiting was not happening in lockstep with the AFRS system. It turned out that ROTC produced fewer officers this spring than expected, according to the report, forcing the recruiting service to speed up the process of graduating students from officer training.
“If we’d seen this a year or more earlier, we could have had more options and been more deliberate in how we responded, rather than run that in a very short period of time,” Brig Gen. Christopher Amrhein told A&SF. “As we look for the attributes OTS wants or that ROTC is looking to produce, … now I can communicate that guidance to one force looking for that talent. It just seems like a better alignment.”
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